Pipes is Right on the Mark: Who's funding the program?

Submitted by Esther S. Beck (United States), Dec 17, 2002 at 15:24

PBS, Recruiting for Islam is right on the mark. Thank you, Dr. Pipes. PBS has been defending the most unthinkable crimes against humanity by Arabs and Muslims over the last couple of years.

PBS is and has been misusing public funds and the public trust. I have begun to wonder whose interests it really serves and what is motivating this biased reporting.

Daniel Pipes' article is excellent and I believe there should be an investigation into who is actually funding these programs. The public should know and be alert to possible dangerous influences in the public arena. Based on the amount of money PBS receives from the public, it must be held very accountable for its programming, especially because it caters to the most educated, affluent and influential viewers.

In my opinion, it is no longer a struggling entity that really is a public servant. PBS has become arrogant and ready to provide as much mis- and dis-information as it accuses commercial stations of providing so long as it serves its -- not the public's -- interest. And it too has become a commercial system.

The reporters excuse acts of violence by stating over and over that people are poor and frustrated and violence is a natural outcome of this frustration. They never question the dictatorial leadership of these countries, their complicity and their dangerous motives. The explanation does not make it perfectly clear those responsible for the violence come from affulent families and are financed by the richest members of the Arab and Muslim societies. PBS would never be permitted any freedom of expression in any of these Arab of Muslim societies they so readily excuse and defend.

NPR has been the most vocal in its defense of violence against the people of Israel. Instead of focusing on who is perpetrating the violence against innocents, NPR always makes the Jewish victims look like they are somehow to blame no matter how horribly they have suffered.

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